Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen of Waterloo, where he lost a leg. He was Member of Parliament for Caernarvon, 1790-6, constable of Caernarvon castle, 1812, 1831, and 1837, and lord lieutenant of Anglesey from 1812 to his death, 29 April 1854. His family papers and personal correspondence show him to have lent his support to every cause and movement of importance in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire during this period, and many
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He began with an edition of The Capel Letters, 1814-1817 (1955). His biography of his ancestor, One Leg: The Life and Letters of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1961), was an obvious personal entré into the historical world, but his enthusiasm did not stop there. Further capable editions of letters and memoirs followed. He then
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet people, and his criticism was scathing. But he also enjoyed leg-pulling and witty repartee. If he had not become a scholar, he could have earned his living as a carpenter or a book-binder: in the few chapters of autobiography he wrote (see the opening chapters of Amryw Bethau, 1996), he writes admiringly of the craftsmen he knew in his native Arfon and his mother's home-land of Llŷn. To those chapters
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher performed well in the Australian leg of the tour beating the host nation in both tests, before they were brought back down to earth in New Zealand losing all four tests. They later played two matches in Canada in an exhausting 35 match tour. Alun Pask's final appearance for Wales came against Ireland in 1967. He was selected for the match in Paris a few weeks later but withdrew due to influenza. He had
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller severe illness which confined him to bed for three years and left him with a crooked leg for the remainder of his life. During this period he read voraciously all the books which friends and neighbours brought him and so acquired a considerable amount of knowledge by self-culture. When he was able to walk again it was realized that he could not stand farmwork. He secured employment at 13s. 0d. a week
WATKINS, ALBERT JOHN (1922 - 2011), cricketer Allan Watkins was born on 21 April, 1922 at Usk, the son of a policeman. He married Molly, and they had three children. Allan Watkins had a 23-year career with the Glamorgan Cricket club, in which as a left-arm batsmen he played in 484 matches, scored 20,361 runs and took 833 wickets with left-arm seam or cutters, and 464 catches. He was one of the finest short-leg fielders to play for the county
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge wounded by mortar bomb shrapnel. The wounds were serious enough for doctors to consider amputation of his leg but he persuaded them not to. On his discharge from hospital, he was no longer fit for active service and was posted on 6 December to command C Company at 164 OCTU in Trenthan. He was released from active military service on 28 May 1945 when he was granted the honorary rank of Major. The
WILDE, WILLIAM JAMES (1892 - 1969), boxer, world flyweight champion (1916-23) him a great deal about boxing and invited him home to practice in the attic. When the family split, he lodged at Dai Davies's house and later married Lisbeth, his daughter. He was a frail, slight youngster, but nevertheless his ambition was to earn his living as a boxer. When he was 15 years old, he had an accident at work and was unable to walk for more than a year, waiting for his leg to heal. He
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1781 - 1840), Independent minister reputation of being the most lively and mischievous boy in the neighbourhood. At the age of 13 he went to Bedd y Coedwr farm to hear ' Peg-leg ' Rhys Davies preach, was profoundly moved by his sermon, and from that day began to take an interest in religious matters. He now attended Pen-y-stryd chapel, where there was an Independent cause started by the congregation of the Old Chapel, Llanuwchllyn, and was
WOOLLER, WILFRED (1912 - 1997), cricketer and rugby player in 1947 when he scored more than 1,000 runs for the first time, shared a record seventh-wicket partnership of 195 with Willie Jones against Lancashire, and captured 79 wickets. A strong leader, he led Glamorgan in 1948 to their first county championship title. He was a fearless short-leg fielder and in the 1950s often opened both the batting and bowling. In 1954, at the age of 41, he achieved the
YSTUMLLYN, JOHN (d. 1786), gardener and land steward adhered to the truth in any case of wrong committed against him or false step of his own. The story which recounts how, when he broke the leg of a sow which had wreaked havoc on his plants in the garden at Ystumllyn, he decided to speak the truth rather than 'sell my soul to the devil' by telling a lie, gives a characteristic portrayal from among those recorded by Robert Isaac Jones of a character that

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